Oversized Fishing Boats & Liebherr Cranes
Saw this oversized fishing boat at Abang Dian’s blog a few days back.
© Hardian Nazief
Upon closer inspection, I realized it was an enormous barge with 6(!) crawler cranes secured tightly on the deck. To view the actual photo, see the original post here. Hardian says that the cranes are used for tying offshore pipes but I still think their actual purpose is to fish for something really big 
Anyway, I went to Liebherr’s website to look for similar cranes. Why Liebherr? Because I remember seeing the name on some construction machinery - German names like Liebherr stand out from the usual Japanese suppliers of heavy construction machinery in SG like Hitachi and Sumitomo (now merged).
Nothing fascinating in the crawler crane and tower crane categories at Liebherr (there’s only so much variation for these two types of cranes) so I looked in the mobile crane category and saw this:
© Liebherr
LTM 1400-7.1 with a maximum lifting capacity of 400 tonnes and a maximum lifting height of 130m.
If that isn’t big enough, take a look at this:
© Liebherr
LTM 1500-8.1
Max lifting capacity of 500 tonnes and a maximum lifting height of 145m.
And finally my favourite one below:
© Liebherr
LG 1750 which can lift 750 tonnes with the S2DB configuration (page 37) or lifts loads up to 190m ith the SDWB configuration (page 83).
Really makes me wonder what type of construction projects require cranes of such impressive capabilities.
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